Dr. James Hufferd is a versatile author, dissident activist, humorist, explorer, novelist, historian of Brazil and the United States, and retired college teacher with roots in the Midwest (Iowa). He has worked, studied, and found inspiration in seven states and abroad and traveled widely from Canada's Arctic Islands in winter to Patagonia to Morocco and twice been a Pesquisador (researcher) Visitante at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has several works of fiction and nonfiction in print.